HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Administration officials at the University of Alabama in Huntsville denied in court documents Thursday using concealed police officers as a defense for a possible "uncomfortable" meeting with Amy Bishop three months before the mass shooting on campus.

The meeting between UAH officials and the assistant professor who pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues in 2010 never took place.

Responding to a motion by two of the victims' families seeking to add then-UAH President David Williams as a defendant in the lawsuit against former Provost Vistasp Karbhari, university attorneys outlined seven points of untrue and inadmissible statements made in the plaintiffs' filing.

The motion also asks for Williams not to be added as a defendant to the lawsuit.

Bishop, 48, killed three UAH biology faculty colleagues and wounded three others in during a meeting on the UAH campus on Feb. 12, 2010. Among those killed were biology department chair Gopi Podila and professors Maria Ragland Davis and Adriel Johnson. Bishop pleaded guilty to capital murder in September and is facing a life sentence without parole.

The UAH response said that Williams, who left the school in 2011 to become engineering dean at Ohio State University, should not be added as a defendant because the statute of limitations has expired. Also, UAH contends attorneys for the victims' families "made numerous untrue, unsupported and inadmissible statements" in arguing for Williams to be added as a defendant.

In addressing the allegation that Williams and Karbhari were in contact with UAH police on Nov. 12, 2009 -- the day Bishop was informed that she had been denied tenure, which prosecutors cited as a motivation for the shooting -- the school responded there is no such evidence that police were called or responded to the administration building at Shelbie King Hall.

Bishop said in an affidavit that she saw Williams and Karbhari fleeing
Shelbie King Hall under police protection after
she indicated a desire to meet with them over her denial of tenure.

UAH argued that while campus police were advised by someone in Williams' office, as part of her "normal practice" to contact police if there was going to be a "potentially uncomfortable meeting," there is no data in police or dispatch records of officers responding to Shelbie King Hall.

UAH also argued that Bishop's affidavit should be dismissed, citing a statement in court records by the plaintiffs that her testimony could not be relied upon because of her "mental incapacity."

Bishop's affidavit is also unsigned and has not been approved by the stamp of a notary public, according to the UAH response.